The repeal of the Test Act [graphic] : a vision / JSayer fect.

Published/Created:

[London]
Published by Thos. Cornell
16th February 1790

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 503 x 35.6 cm, on sheet 52 x 38 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7628

Notes:

Title from caption below image.
First two letters of printmaker's signature form monogram.
Eleven lines of verse below image in two columns, one on either side of title: "From such implacable tormentors, fanatics, hypocrites, dissenters ..."
Temporary local subject terms: Religious dissenters -- Reference to America -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Magnifying glasses -- Religious reforms -- Excisemen -- Jews -- American flag -- Reference to Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Acts: Repeal of the Test and Corporation Act, March 2, 1790.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-5-143.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 50.2 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 50.6 x 35.7 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark; mounted to 56 x 37 cm.

Associated Names:

Sayers, James, 1748-1823 [Printmaker]
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792 [Publisher]

Topics:

Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Hoghton, Henry, Sir, 1728-1795
Kippis, Andrew, 1725-1795
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825
Stanhope,

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1790
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1790

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

790.02.16.01++ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

9729084

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr06873

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10731227

PID:

digcoll:553806